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by bluescrn 634 days ago
AFAIK, you can't view any tweets unless logged in these days. But the sort of user being frequently blocked likely has multiple accounts anyway.
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> AFAIK, you can't view any tweets unless logged in these days

You can view a single tweet, but it won't display a thread for you unless you log in.

There does seem to be an exception for public outlets.

I clicked a link to NYPDs twitter and didn’t have to AuthN. Makes sense too; every org who wanted their content to be fully available to anyone would leave if twitter mandated login

(Although they still use Facebook)

> every org who wanted their content to be fully available...

Every single public account I've visited still has the feed in non-chronological order which instantly makes it useless to me. I don't care about a post from my city government in 2019.

In theory you can't see any tweets at all, because they're now just "posts".

But everybody still calls them "tweets" because it was an amazing bit of branding.

I will always call it twitter & always call them tweets.